Week 31 - WTA Premier ($721K) - Carlsbad CA, USA - Hard

Mervatron · Masters Series Champion

RE: Week 31 - WTA Premier ($721K) - Carlsbad CA, USA - Hard

Josh · Challenger level

Definitely feel sorry for Oudin. I sat next to her twin sister watching Nalbandian at Wimbledon this year, Melanie was playing later on in the day. She was telling the friends she was with about how Melanie had been out of school since she was really young, training hours a day mostly by herself. I'm sure most tennis players go through the same things but when you put in so much effort and it goes so badly wrong it must be pretty tough.

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

At least Melanie Oudin managed to turn up at the right town, unlike Bojana Jovanovski..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/14369086.stm

philwrig · Hall of fame

An opportunity to listen to Ken Thomas on radiotennis.com for Bally's match tonight 4th on stadium court.

murray_2k9 · Challenger qualifying

Shame there isnt a stream anywhere though!

RBBOT · Futures qualifying

tony_orient wrote:
At least Melanie Oudin managed to turn up at the right town, unlike Bojana Jovanovski..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/tennis/14369086.stm

D'oh. Well, at least she got the right country. A colleague of mine was once supposed to meet me in San Jose in California, but mistakenly flew to San Jose in Costa Rica. He didn't realise until the pilot gave the announcement of their expected landing time!

tony_orient · ATP qualifying

The good news is the first three matches were all quite one sided, which means Bally is just about to start and we can follow this one without it getting too late

philwrig · Hall of fame

Kenny loving the pronunciation of Baltachka.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Kenny criticising the overuse of the sliced backhand by Bally.
Competing well (well we always know that) but not playing well at the moment.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Radwanska just not missing, Bally needs to be more aggressive but without the mistakes.

philwrig · Hall of fame

A bit of a shocker so far, can only get better in the second.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Bally on the board, gutsy effort 0-6 1-1*

Julia Carrot · All-time great

On the board now 1 -1 in the 2nd. Phew. I can't seem to get the radio link to work. When I click on 'listen now' it just downloads a file that I can't open.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Bally keeps fighting and a sloppy game from Aga makes it *2-1.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Julia Carrot wrote:
On the board now 1 -1 in the 2nd. Phew. I can't seem to get the radio link to work. When I click on 'listen now' it just downloads a file that I can't open.

You're missing a treat as well, Kenny Thomas is a legend and in top form tonight.